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• Seminar II
  ...sychanalyse</small>]]''<BR><big>[[Seminar II|The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]]</big> ...tween [[discourse]] [[analysis]] and the [[analysis]] of the [[ego]], both in relation to psychoanalytical theory and practice. He claims that "[[analys
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• Psychiatry
  ...ouisiana]], [[Guam]] or the military may also prescribe medication.</ref>. In some countries, mental health medication may only be prescribed by medical ...even the strongest measures. The majority of patients will fall somewhere in between.
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• Semiotics
  ...udy of the communication of information in [[living]] organisms is covered in [[biosemiotics]]. ...'''semeiotics''' to honour [[John Locke]] ([[1632]]&ndash;[[1704]]), who, in "[[An Essay Concerning Human Understanding]]" ([[1690]]), first coined the
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...erapeutic techniques, especially his [[understanding]] of [[transference]] in the therapeutic [[relationship]] and the presumed [[value]] of [[dream]]s a ...o the [[University]] in [[Vienna]] because of the strong [[anti-Semitism]] in [[Austria]] at the [[time]], at which time his grades plummeted.
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• Linguistics
  ...theory]], and not until 1957 that he begins to engage with [[linguistics]] in any detail. ...[[anthropology|anthropological]] [[work]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] who, in the 1940s, had begun to apply the methods of [[structure|structural]] [[lin
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• Mathematics
  In his attempt to theorize the [[category]] of the [[symbolic]], [[Lacan]] ado ...istics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]].
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• Giorgio Agamben
  ...tional de Philosophie]] in [[Paris]] and at the [[University of Macerata]] in Italy, and has held visiting appointments at several American universities. ...without as yet inflecting [[them]] in a specifically political direction. In 1974-1975 he was a fellow at the [[Warburg Institute]], where he wrote ''St
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• Roland Barthes
  ...His [[mother]], Henriette Barthes, and his aunt and grandmother raised him in the French city of [[Bayonne]] where he received his first exposure to [[cu ...s period, [[suffering]] from [[tuberculosis]] that often had to be treated in the [[isolation]] of [[sanatorium|sanatoria]]. His repeated [[physical]] b
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• Judith Butler
  ...[[political]] [[philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhetoric]] and Comparative [[Literature]] at the [[Uni ==In the work of Slavoj Žižek==
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• Capitalism
  ...ism, when viewed as a system of power relations, is described as a society in which every kind of transactional relation is fundamentally exploitative. Capitalism is a system that depends on the exploitation of underclass groups for its survival. (h
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• Cognitivism/Neuroscience
  ...rn]] to a scientific approach to [[mental]] activity that has materialized in the [[development]] of the cognitive [[sciences]]. ...representing [[understanding]] and the processing of information. Included in the term are certain areas of speculative research ([[philosophy]] of [[min
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• Deconstruction
  ...he basis for [[thought]] and [[belief]]. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and [[discussion]], and is, by its very [[nature]] ==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==
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• Gilles Deleuze
  == In the work of Slavoj Žižek == ...Žižek this mode of repetition indicates Deleuze’s similarity to Hegel, in that both stress becoming through repetition. By becoming-[[other]] to Hege
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• Félix Guattari
  ...rincipal anchoring -- a [[refusal]] to be anchored! -- until his [[death]] in [[1992]]. ...well as the [[formation]] of Friendly Male Nurses (Amicales d'infirmiers)(in [[1958]]), the studies on architecture and the projects of [[construction]]
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• Jürgen Habermas
  ...[German]] [[philosopher]], [[political]] [[scientist]] and [[sociologist]] in the [[tradition]] of critical [[theory]]. ...[capitalist]] industrial [[society]] and of [[democracy]], the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary (especially German
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies in recently [[Decolonization|decolonized]] countries. ===''Political Order in Changing Societies''===
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• Søren Kierkegaard
  ...s mother, Anne Sørensdatter Lund Kierkegaard, is not directly referred to in his books, although she too affected his later writings. Despite his fathe ...he last sacrifice which he made to his [[love]] for me; ... he died for me in [[order]] that, if possible, I might still turn into something. Of all tha
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• Georg Lukács
  ...[[Marxist theory|theory]], and his [[literary]] criticism was influential in [[thinking]] [[about]] [[realism]] and about the [[novel]] as a [[literary ...an (language)|German]], was '''Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin''', and in [[Hungarian (language)|Hungarian]] was '''Szegedi Lukács György Bernát''
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• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  .... It is fascinating to read how Althusser sees Lacan as [[being]] involved in a similar [[project]] to his own. Just as he, Althusser, is trying to rethi interest in [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis - a movement which seemed to
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• Jacques Lacan:Oedipus
  Lacan's [[work]] in the 1950s placed emphasis on the [[role]] of [[language]] and [[the symboli ...cient Greek]] [[tragedy]] ([[myth]]) by [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]'', in which Oedipus unwittingly kills his [[father]] and [[marries]] his [[mother
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